Sowing
There’s still time to sow lettuces, broad beans and cabbages inside or under cloches – or even in the open as long as you protect them in bad weather.
You can still sow peas early part of the month for a late spring crop.
Onions can be started in small pots indoors to have them ready for planting out in spring. (You have to persevere with germination).
You can grow field beans as a green manure.
Growing
Plant garlic corms and you can continue planting Japanese onions in the first week. Cover them with fleece. (The best onions I have ever grown were on ash from a bonfire.)
Jerusalem artichokes, rhubarb and horseradish can all be planted now. Artichokes and horseradish can both be invasive, so choose out-of-the-way sites, or prepare to manage them! All enjoy well-drained, rich soil, so work as much manure or organic matter you can.
Maintenance
Work on your bare earth.
A layer of chicken manure and perhaps leaf mold, and then a layer of compost on top is the best way to encourage the aeration of the soil by worms. By the spring you will have a perfect bed for potatoes.
What to do in your garden in November
Normally the time for slippers, cocoa and autumn fires, there’s too much to do in the garden for all that!
I saw this on an allotment, a lot of sticks!